Re: Power Users and IIS 6.0

From: David Wang [Msft] (someone_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:24:11 -0800

Operators tab and the whole concept of "delegated administration", as a
feature, was quite broken from a security perspective, so we removed it from
IIS6. Only administrators can use the UI to administer IIS6. 

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//David
IIS
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"DeWayne Gibson" <dewayne@TAKEOUTaracnetSPAM.com> wrote in message
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In IIS 4 and 5 I could assign operators to administer certain functions of
IIS.  That functionality is missing in IIS6.
"Jeff Cochran" <jcochran.nospam@naplesgov.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:32:13 -0800, "DeWayne Gibson"
> <dewayne@TAKEOUTaracnetSPAM.com> wrote:
>
> >Can I grant my Power Users group permissions to Administer IIS 6.0 using
the
> >MMC snap in?  It appears the ability to do this has been removed in IIS
6.0.
>
> It never was there.  To administer via the GUI requires local admin
> priveleges.
>
> Jeff

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